Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Holocaust memory in the new millennium-between continuity and change -- Rethinking testimony : authenticity, "travelling memories," and post-Holocaust Jewish identities in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand -- "Im Land der Väter und Verräter" : intertextuality, influence, and the problem of symbiosis in Maxim Biller's writing -- Contrapuntal memory, dialogism, and irony : challenges to transnationalism in Vladimir Vertlib's Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur -- From the family to the metamemorial novel : Eva Menasse's fiction -- Conclusion: The critique of the critique of representation; self- and metareflexivity in contemporary Holocaust fiction.
Summary:
"With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Dialogue and disjunction : studies in Jewish German literature, culture & thought
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